The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office said Damond “died of a gunshot wound of the abdomen” at around 11.51pm.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner are investigating, the office said.

The Bureau released the following statement outlining the facts around the shooting:

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) continues to investigate an officer involved shooting incident that happened late Saturday night in Minneapolis. The investigation is being conducted at the request of the Minneapolis Police Department.

Two Minneapolis police officers responded to a 911 call of a possible assault just north of the 5100 block of Washburn Avenue South just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday. At one point an officer fired their weapon, fatally striking a woman.

BCA crime scene personnel located no weapons at the scene. The BCA continues to examine evidence to determine the facts that led to the shooting incident.

The BCA will provide additional details of the incident once initial interviews with the officers are complete. Those interviews have been requested by BCA agents. The officers are working with their attorneys to schedule them. Both officers are on standard administrative leave.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office has conducted an autopsy on the deceased woman and will formally release the woman’s identity and the cause and manner of death once all family notifications are completed.

As previously reported, the officers’ body cameras were not turned on at the time of the incident and the squad camera did not capture the incident. The BCA’s investigation does not determine whether a law enforcement agency policy was violated. That would be reviewed through the agency’s internal affairs process.

The BCA conducts officer involved shooting investigations the same way it does all investigations. BCA agents interview witnesses and the people involved in the incident; collect, analyze and review evidence; and conduct follow-up interviews as needed to ultimately find all of the facts of a case.

The agency involved in the incident has no input regarding the investigative direction of the case. As an independent fact finder, the BCA does not decide or determine the outcome of a case. As it does in all investigations, the BCA will present its findings without recommendations to a county attorney for review.

The lawyer for the Minneapolis Police Department officer involved, Mohamed Noor, 31, has also issued a statement offering his condolences.

“He takes these events very seriously because, for him, being a police officer is a calling,” it said.